Lewis Hamilton has admitted that Ferrari’s setup changes for the F1 Chinese Grand Prix negatively affected the c🔥ar’s handling.

Hamilton could only finish sixth on track at the Shanghai International Circuit - although it got w🅠orse when he was later disqualified for excessive plank wear.

It was a disappointing Sunday for the seven-t🥃ime world champion, given that he dominated the sprin⛎t race from pole position.

Hamilton was forced to let teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc by due to a lack of pace before surrendering fifth to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen after converting to a two-stop strategy.

The result is in jeopardy🀅, though, with Hamilton - and Leclerc - under investigation for technical infringements.

Speakꦑing after the race, before stewards’ decisions, Hamilton said he was happy to try the two-stop strategy.

However, he lamented the setup 🍃tweaks, which didn’t work.

“I am glad we tried something else. I was struggling with performance. Basically, we had a pretty decent car in the sprint and then we made some cha💝nges as we tried to improve forward and improve the car, and we made it quite a bit worse basically for qualifying and even worse for the race,” Hamilton said.

“Unfortunate. Very hard to k☂eep up with the cars ahead. Lots to learn. The pit stop is too long here, it’s a lot of seconds to catch up. They were still going fast at the end.

“Max 💜was doing something similar to me and I had much fresher tyres. It wasn’t great.”

Lewis Hamilton: “I will know not to do that again”

Hamiꦬlton didn’t shed ♛much light on the specific setup changes.

𒁏The 40-year-old did mention something Leclerc tested during Bahrain testing, which both drivers opted for in China.

Hamilton was frank in his assessment t🎐hat change made the car significantly worse.

“We made some other change🍃s as well as that but not massively, a ඣsmall amount,” Hamilton added.

“All the pieces togethe🔥r made it quite a bit worse. Charles tested something in Bahrain. I hadn’t tested it but we both went that way and it was bad. I will k🦩now not to do that again.”